Parthi News - January 14th

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January 14th

 

 

 

 

 

Sathya Sai Baba distributes blankets to elderly devotees

 

This

morning during the bhajans in Sai Kulwant Hall, elderly devotees were seated in

a special row. Swami came to Sai Kulwant Hall as the bhajans were going on and

personally distributed blankets to elderly devotees both men and women. Swami

also distributed blankets to some devotees in veranda. At 10:45 am the bhajans

ended and after talking to a few devotees on the ladies side Swami left for Yajur

Mandir (swami's home).

 

 

 

 

 

Drama called Sant Kabir by Students

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday evening another wonderful drama by the students

in Sai Kulwant Hall. The drama was about Sant Kabir and his wonderful messages.

 

 

Drama began with the birth of Sant Kabir, he was found by a Muslim couple on

the banks of river Ganges. The couple accepts

the kid as the gift from Allah, so they take him to an elder to give him a

Name. The elderly person looks in the holy book and finds Kabir and gives the

boy that name. Kabir is also one of names of Allah.

 

Kabir grows up and in search of God he decides, he needs a master who can guide

him to God. And finds a master in Guru Ramanand, who accepts him as his

disciple even though he is a Muslim. When many of his students protest and

leave him. The Guru says, the river Ganges,

the air, the sun don’t make any discriminations among us. So why should

we human beings the creations of God make such discriminations.

 

They narrate all the wonderful Kabir dohas (poems) with wonderful scenery as

Kabir makes his livelihood. They show us how Kabir was well respected in both

Hindu and Muslim communities. Once when during a festival season devotees from

both Muslim and Hindu communities approach Kabir, so that he could make them a

cloth for the festival celebrations. He accepts both their request even though,

he has no time to complete them. When he was working late at night to finish

the cloth, which had to be given in the morning, he falls asleep. In the

morning the devotees from both the communities arrive at his home and find two

beautifully made cloth and wake Kabir up to congratulate him, on the beautiful

work he has done. Only then does Kabir realize that Lord has performed a

miracle to keep his devotees words. Devotees from both communities leave asking

him to visit the temple and bless them.

 

So he visit the Dargah (Muslims holy place) and one of the devotee asks him

about animal sacrifices. He says that animal sacrifices should not be done.

What is written in the scriptures is actually to sacrifice the animal qualities

in you not the poor animals. Devotees say only the true devotees like Kabir can

understand the real meaning of all the scriptures.

 

Then he visits a Hindu temple and sees that some devotees are not allowed to

enter the temple. So he advises the devotees there and tells them about how Adi

Shankara Charya learned that God is present in all the Human Beings when He

visited the same temple. They show how Adi Shankara Charya once visiting that

temple sees a chandala come in his way and ask him to move aside. When the man

asks him, whom are you asking to move the body or the soul. Then Adi Shankara Charya

realizes the God in Chandala and offers pranams to his feet. After listening to

this devotees welcome all the people in to the temple.

 

They also showed how when Kabir was summoned to court of the King, after some

complaints from some people accusing him of wrong doing, saying he is causing

trouble to religious harmony.

 

Kabir says to the King that he would never do anything to disrespect God, all

are his brothers. When the king gets angry and asks him to tell the truth, if

he wants to leave the court alive. Kabir replies, if God wants to end this life

I will more than happily accept it. King in anger asks the guards to punish

him, when the try to punish Kabir God punishes the punishers. Soon they realize

that they can’t punish Kabir and ask him for forgiveness.

 

King realizing his mistake asks for forgiveness and asks Kabir to give his

kingdom a message so that all the people in the kingdom could follow. Kabir

says a Muslim should try to become a better Muslim and a Hindu should try to

become a better Hindu. Love All, Serve All. That’s way all the citizens

can live happily.

 

The drama ended with a beautiful song, slowly all the students joined in

offering their prayers to Swami. Swami blessed all the performers by taking

photos with them and giving Prasad. Swami blessed the student who played Kabir

with a Gold chain. Prasadam was also distributed to all the devotees in Sai

Kulwant Hall.

 

Students once again did a wonderful job of creating a memorable drama of Sant

Kabir. They built a temple and then a mosque and they ended the drama with both

the temple and the mosque standing side by side. The also had many wonderful

songs that Muslim devotees sing and also some very nice songs the Hindu

devotees sing. The dialogues were in English but the songs were in Hindi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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